ISLAMABAD - Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam Tuesday said over 170 foreign delegates including India have reached Pakistan to participate in the seventh International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia Regional Conservation Forum (RCF). He made these remarks ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan projected its flagship project "Billion Tree Tsunami", as one of its flagship efforts to arrest climate change at a high level event organized by the President of the UN General Assembly. According to a press release issued by the Pakistan Mission to the UN, the Project has ...

ISLAMABAD - European Union and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have agreed to work in Balochistan in Water Conservation projects. This was told by EU Ambassador to Pakistan Jean-Francois Cautaian and IUCN Country Representative Mahmood Akhtar Cheema who called on Advisor to ...

ISLAMABAD - Launched in 2015 by Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaf party, the Billion Tree Tsunami aims to turn the tide on land degradation and loss in the mountainous, formerly forested KPK province in the Hindu Kush mountain range. The campaign simultaneously helped KPK ...

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government has surpassed the target of the Bonn Challenge by planting trees over more than 350,000 hectares of deforested and degraded land under the Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project.The achievement was announced by the International Union for Conservation of ...

KARACHI: (APP) A training workshop Friday was organized by IUCN Pakistan under its project `Restoration and Rehabilitation of Mangroves Ecosystem along the Coasts of Pakistan' at Korangi Fish Harbour with the objective to sensitize the local community and school children on the Mangroves ecosystem ...

HONOLULU (APP) - Giant Panda status has changed in China and it has been taken out of the category of the endangered specie.Decades of conservation work in China have paid off for the giant panda, whose status was changed Sunday from "endangered" to "vulnerable" due to a population rebound, ...

NICOSIA: (APP) The lionfish, a tropical creature with poisonous barbs and a painful sting that can kill humans in rare cases, may be spreading in the Mediterranean, a conservation group warned Monday.The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (UICN) said the fish had been spotted in ...

ISLAMABAD, (APP): Pakistan Climate Change Challenges: Restoration of wetlands can mitigate flood risks Pakistan Muslim League (N) Parliamentarian Muhammad Mueen Watto, said on Tuesday that the flood risk could be mitigated with effective management of river basins including the Indus and ...

KARACHI: Pakistan Navy has kicked off Mangroves Plantation drive here at coastal areas of Sindh and Baluchistan on the occasion of World Forest Day as per the Green Pakistan vision of Prime Minister. As per details, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Zakaullah as a chief guest formally inaugurated the ...